Dear Charlie, Thank you for your comments.
E-mail sound may not have a need for html and the requirement for hugh downloads can be avoided. E-mail sounds tend to be around 35k or 3 seconds modem action. Not very much fun sending a Christmas card to a recipient, who has to look up a web page to find a manufactured e-mail to get a result. Linux must be able to do this and better than MS. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 10:17, Charlie M. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Saturday 15 November 2003 7:41 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:17 pm, candlish wrote: > > > Sir or Madam, > > > > > > I would like to place a small sound file in an outgoing e-mail to > > > activate on opening, as possible in 'Outlook Express'. I tend to use > > > Evolution and Mozilla in the main, but could use any e-mail client. > > > > > > What I wanted was for the sound to travel with the e-mail and to be > > > activated on opening. This may be seen as a virus however? > > > > > > This surely be made possible! > > > > > > Thank you in anticipation. > > > > > > Malcolm Candlish. > > > > Malcolm: > > > > No, no, no! Sober up, man! Take a cold shower! Forget it! > > > > Feel better now? Good. Let's begin by remembering that the Number One > > transport mechanism for Windows viruses and worms is Outlook/Outlook > > Express because they are diabolically designed to execute attached files. > > What's the very first thing that Windows users are told to do to tighten > > security? That's right, change the default settings to defeat the automatic > > execution "feature". It's also why mail filter programs strip all such > > attachments from incoming mail -- those things are potential bombs. Hell, > > most of us are paranoid about just getting HTML; your musical alerts would > > really light the place up. > > > > Possible under Linux? No. That's why you don't see postings here from folks > > who "just" opened an e-mail, and now they find that they have become a > > major distributor of spam and malware, their system is doing goofy things, > > and the mouse pointer has developed a mind of its own. It isn't be > > accident, my friend, it's by design. KMail (and others) can provide an > > audible notice that email has arrived, but it is controlled by the > > receiver, not the sender. > > > > Let's think a little further. I, for one, do not wish to hear whatever hit > > of the week accompanies your last missive, especially should you decide > > that the complete Slim Whitman collection would be exactly what it takes to > > get me to read your e-mail. Now, if I were still laboring away in a cubicle > > farm, and was subjected to the musical announcement of the arrival of > > Malcolm's latest e-mail from each of the surrounding cubes, be assured that > > I'd be at the forefront of the mob coming after you. (First offense: tar, > > feathers and a rail; subsequent offense: Nasty. Very nasty. Involves a rope > > and a tree. No jury will convict us.) > > > > Add to the above the overhead of your demonic thought -- bigger files, > > longer downloads, yada, yada... and you'll understand why the only > > acceptable medium for e-mail -- particularly on mail lists -- is plain > > text. The frou-frou is neither necessary nor acceptable. > > > > OTOH, you may have come up with a new concept here -- singing spam. Please > > do not include my name on any patent application that you may file. > > > > -- cmg > > I'll agree completely to the above comments. I've been known to design > "digital" birthday, anniversary, condolences "cards" for friends on occasion; > but I've only once succumbed to the temptation to send one through email. > That one called a musical accompaniment and "fancy background," fonts, etc., > that I knew were already resident on her hard drive because I put them there > when I built the system. > > Just an awful lot of html code in other words. > > Since that time I'll instead send an html link message, such as "Happy > Birthday" or whatever is appropriate, but stored temporarily on web space I > control. > > Never any huge downloads without prior consent in other words. > > Charlie > - -- > Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org > Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk > 03:06:36 up 5 days, 15:12, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.22, 0.19 > "Nuclear war would really set back cable." > - - Ted Turner > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/t07PG11CaRuZZSIRApd/AJ9ZQt0Ljb9SWhIB9bmtTBc+F27HAgCgr5kg > 6wavkBjkg5g9+TzS8LJEXeo= > =s/ug > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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